what we've been doing this year

(Just letting you know ahead of time this is going to be a loooooooooong post because I haven't done one since March). Here is what we've been doing...

March

I won third place in the junior duck stamp competition for my drawing of a Tundra swan (I will post pictures at a later time). Rock and Mag were going to enter but decided against it, so I was the only one.

April

For an April fool's joke, I let the dogs out in the back yard and said "Mommy, the dog's are out!"
She looked out the window and said "well don't just stand there telling me, go chase them!". She thought that they had got out the front door and were running away! It was pretty funny.

May
May 21st was Parker's fourth birthday (did I really start this blog when he was 2 months old?) on the 22nd we saw three of our cousins for the first time ever. We had fun riding bikes, playing and jumping on the trampoline with them.

June
I started tennis lessons in May and finished in June, that was fun! Also, we three bigger kids did a week long drama camp. We practiced all week and then did a show for all the parents at the end of the week. We had a great time! It was sort of a hodge podge of songs from various musicals/movies and a few skits including Robinhood and a great version of Abbott and Castello's "Who's on first?". I even got to sing a solo, "Tomorrow" from the musical Annie.


July
On the 4th of july we had a church picnic and then went to see the fireworks. Then on the 5th of July we got to see some more fireworks a day late, as another town did them on the 5th. A few weeks later was the state fair and I won 4 ribbons. I got 3 Honorable mentions for a crayon human head drawing, painted stone or brick and something else that I can't remember. I got 2nd place for a chalk drawing.

August
My birthday was on the third so I am eleven now! (Rock started football on the second)
Then Mags birthday was on the 26Th and those are about the only exciting things that happened this month. It was really busy with football practices and games.

September
Daddy took off from work the whole labor day week and that Friday we went to Asseteague, Chincoteage, and Wallops islands. We went to Wallops Island first and enjoyed the nasa museum there. Then we climbed to the top of the lighthouse at Assateague (I was the first one to the top). Then drove to the nature center and saw lots of neat things inside. We drove around and saw some wild ponies then we were going to go see the stuffed misty of Chincoteage but found out that they close on labor day weekend. Instead we went to Tom's cove where I saw my first tricolored heron (actually we saw two) and we each got a post card and something else (I got a bird memory game). There were several other birders with a spotting scope set up at Toms cove. I had fun birdwatching with them for a little bit. We got a copy of the book Stormy misty's foal and then headed to leave. As we were walking to the suburban we saw two great egrets sitting in a tree right behind where we were parked! I've never gotten that close to them before.


October:
Aarons birthday was the 13th. Then this weekend me and daddy went to Pennsylvania for a father/son getaway. It was fun!

We went to a Saw whet owl banding on Saturday (I'll blog more about that soon). On Sunday, we went to hawk mountain to hike and bird watch. I saw three new birds (common raven, purple finch, red-shouldered hawk) and several others I haven't seen for a long time (tufted titmouse, white-breasted nuthatch, chickadee, northern harrier, downy woodpecker, red-bellied woodpecker). We had a great time, but it was a lot of walking and climbing.

Today is rocks birthday...he's ten now!



Thats pretty much everything exciting that has happened so far this year.



-the birdman-